COMITIA - Black's Law Dictionary

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In Roman law.  An assembly, either (1) of the  Roman curiae, in which case it was called the "comitia  curiata vel calata";  or (2)  of the Roman  centuries, in which  case it was called the "comitia centuriata"  (called also  comitia majora) ; or (3) of the Roman tribes, in which  case it was  called the  "comitia tributa." Only patricians were members of the first comitia, and only plebians of the  last; but  the  comitia centuriata comprised  the entire populace, patricians and plebians both, and was the great legislative  assembly passing the leges, properly so called, as the senate passed the senatus consulta, and the comitia tributa passed the plebiscita. Under the Lex Hortensia, 287 B.C., the plebiscitum acquired the force of a lex. Brown.

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